It was set up to oversee the annual airlifting of Ghanaian Hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.

[1][2] The cost of Hajj per head experience frequent fluctuations, falling in some years and rising in others mainly due to the instability of the Ghanaian cedi.

When pegged against the US dollar however the unit cost kept changing depending on other factors like exchange rate, flight ticket among others Leadership of the National Hajj Council is appointed by President of Ghana in consultation with the Chief Imam of Ghana.

[16] Over the years different government administrations have reorganized leadership structure of the Hajj facilitation body under various names.

Akuffo-Addo government in 2017 reconstituted the erstwhile Hajj Committee into three major units supervised by an eleven-member board.Note 1 The three units are Medical, Communications and an Information Technology directorate; the latter tasked with the responsibility to build and deploy a technology infrastructure to manage all Hajj operations.